Communications Comunicações 2009

Invited Talks

Cellulose spirals and helices, M. H. Godinho. J. P. Canejo, J. P. Borges and P. I. Teixeira, Flow(ers) and Jam(mers) Workshop, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2009
Critical Phenomena and Local Dynamics on Complex Networks, Summer course for post-graduated students (6 hours), Tampere University of Technology, Finland, July 6-8, 2009
Dissipative Bloch Waves, Workshop “Nonlinear Optics in Guided Geometries” (May 18-20, Weierstrass Institute, Berlin, Germany)
Do strongly dipolar fluids condense? Why do we care, J.J. Weis Fest, Orsay, França, 10/2009
Dynamics of matter solitons in linear and nonlinear lattices, "Solitons in their roaring forties", CPNL W09 (COherence and persistence of Nonlinear Waves, (6-9, January, 2009, Nice, France)
How patchy can one get and still condense?, Flowers and Jammers: from liquid crystals to grains, Lisboa, Portugal 6/2009 (por P. I. Teixeira com J. M. Tavares)
How patchy can one get and still condense? The role of dissimilar patches in the interactions of colloidal particles, J. M. Tavares, P. I. C. Teixeira and M. M. Telo da Gama, Flow(ers) and Jam(mers) Workshop, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2009
Islands in free standing smectic C films, Flowers and Jammers: from liquid crystals to grains, Lisboa, Portugal 6/2009 (por N. M. Silvestre com P. Patrício)
Networks in soft matter and beyond, FISES09, Física Estadística, Huelva, Spain, 9/2009
Nonlinear patterns in complex periodic potentials with linear pump, Australian Conference on Optics, Lasers and Spectroscopy and Australian Conference on Optical Fiber Technilogy in association with the International Dissipative Solitons—2009 (29 November—3 December 2009, The University of Adelaide, South Australia)
Quantum switching at the mean-field instability of a Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice, 18th International Laser Physics Workshop LASPHYS’09 (July 13-17,2009, Barecelona, Spain)
Sequential polydisperse packings: theory and applications, R.M. Baram, H. Herrmann, P.G. Lind, ESMC2009, 7-11 September, IST, Lisbon, Portugal (2009)

Talks

γγ → hh(AA) in 2HDM, PHOTON2009, DESY, Germany, 3/2009
Higgs pair production - LHC vs. γγ Collider, LC09, Perugia, Italy, 9/2009
Higgs pair production in 2HDM, Workshop on Multi-Higgs Models, Lisbon, Portugal, 9/2009

Posters

A neural network approach to modelling a confined liquid crystal, T. Santos Silva, P. I. Teixeira, C. Anquetil-Deck and D. J. Cleaver, Biological and Soft Matter Conference, Warwick, United Kingdom, April 2009
Criticality of colloids with distinct interaction patches, CECAM Workshop on Computer Simulation Approaches to Study Self-Assembly: From Patchy Nano-Colloids to Virus Capsids, Lausanne, Suíça, 7/2009 (por J. M. Tavares com P. I. C. Teixeira)
How patchy can one get and still condense? The role of dissimilar patches in the interactions of colloidal particles, Biological and Soft Matter 2009, University of Warwick, UK, 4/2009 (por J. M. Tavares com P. I. C. Teixeira)
Quadrupolar defect structures generated by chiral islands in freely suspended smectic C films, Faraday Discussion 144: Multiscale Modelling of Soft Matter, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, 7/2009 (por N. M Silvestre, com P Patrício, A Pattanaporkratana, C. S. Park,, J. E. Maclennan e N. A. Clark)
Shear-induced lamellar ionic liquid crystal foam, A. J. Ferreira, P. I. C. Teixeira, C. Cruz, M. H. Godinho, P. S. Kulkarni and C. A. M. Afonso, Biological and Soft Matter Conference, Warwick, United Kingdom, April 2009
Spirals and helices of liquid crystalline cellulose derivatives: electrospinning mimics plant tendrils on the nano and microscale, M. H. Godinho, J..P. Canejo, L. F. V. Pinto, J. P. Borges and P. I. Teixeira, Biological and Soft Matter Conference, Warwick, United Kingdom, April 2009